On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:36:45 -0400, (J T)
wrote:

Sun, Oct 24, 2004, 1:45am (EDT-1) (Prometheus)
says:
I was looking at doing this- I already had a 10' miter saw, and figured
I could just get a metal cut-off wheel for it,

Really bad juju to try that. It's hazardous, it's bad for the saw
(abrasive rubbish gets everywhere) and it's considerably illegal to
try it (YMMV). Rules for using abrasive wheels have been strict for
years, and not without reason.

If you're doing aluminium, particularly thinwall extrusions, then a
properly designed sawblade with negative tooth rake is cheap, safe
although noisy.


I'm going to be cutting angle iron, and tubing.

I'd look at a cheap metal cutting bandsaw. These get _really_ cheap
at the low end, and I've had a huge amount of use out of one, mainly
cutting angle or square tube to length before welding.



Altho I did see two guys
cutting a railroad track in half, with a hacksaw, in Nam.

What a waste ! You're in an environment with easy access to high
Vdet explosives, and they didn't use them.

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Smert' spamionam